Luke 1: 57 - 80
| 57Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. 58Her neighbours and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her. 59On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. 60His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.” |
| 61They said to her, “There is no one amongst your relatives who is called by this name.” 62They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. |
| 63He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” |
| They all marvelled. 64His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God. 65Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. 66All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him. |
| 67His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, |
| 68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, |
| for he has visited and redeemed his people; |
| 69and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David |
| 70(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old), |
| 71salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; |
| 72to show mercy towards our fathers, |
| to remember his holy covenant, |
| 73the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, |
| 74to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, |
| should serve him without fear, |
| 75in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. |
| 76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; |
| for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, |
| 77to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, |
| 78because of the tender mercy of our God, |
| by which the dawn from on high will visit us, |
| 79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; |
| to guide our feet into the way of peace.” |
| 80The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel. |
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